The Boston Globe, September 21st, 2003
"Ninety-nine percent" of American troops "would have escaped if there had been any non-shameful way out." Historian and literary scholar Paul Fussell reaches this conclusion not about America's most hated war - Vietnam - but World War II, a war that has taken on a sacred role in the memory of the United States and to this day lends legitimacy to America's role in the world. "The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945" is a misleading title for Fussell's book. Fussell has not produced a comprehensive history of America's campaign from Normandy to Berlin. He has n...
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